Untitled (Paddlewheel Steamboat); Untitled (Train Cars), from an Ohettoint sketchbook
Ohettoint, Ka'igwu / American, 1852 - 1934
Ka'igwu (Kiowa)
Southern Plains
about mid-1875-mid-1878
Graphite and colored pencil on wove sketchbook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 8 3/4 × 11 1/4 in. (22.2 × 28.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949; and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College
2007.65.19ab
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Reverse: [drawing 2007.65.112]
Course History
NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
"The Lansburgh Collection," Nedra Matteucci Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 11-31, 2000.
Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2-December 19, 2010.
Publication History
Colin G. Calloway, Editor, Ledger Narratives, The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (published in cooperation with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire), 2012, p. 97, plate 53.
Provenance
Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, date unknown; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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